Help making a CSS Montage.

[XXzz-Trauma-zzXX]

Ill cut straight to the point. I want to make a really nice CSS montage because I want to take on something that will take some time and look cool. Basically I want to do something somewhat productive. So my problems are. 1. I only have Windows Movie Maker as a video editing software, so I want to know what are some good free programs out there that will give me some good shots and effects to make my video look good. And 2. I want to have shots in my video that shows it from my view, but then flies behind or beside the guy I killed to get a close up. To understand what I mean watch this video and watch. [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEABJ9MA5ig[/ame]

Thanks to anyone who can help me out and give me tips.

 

[JunK]

im currently making my own video of scout kill frag video thingy.
first off its best to use source recorder, meaning you record yourself playing, every round to cut down on the time, then any good rounds you keep those demos and convert them to an avi from a .dem file format. to do so download the Xvid MPEG-4 codec located HERE. Install it and basically what you do is this: Use the demo recording bind i am going to PM to you, then you open up console, type startmovie name avi and a window will pop up asking for a compression type or something, make sure you choose the xvid mpeg-4 thing you downloaded/installed then it will say your movie will start once your console is closed. then type playdemo demonamethatyouwanttomakeamovieoutof and sit back and relax. it will look like its playing at 2 FPS, which is fine, just wait until its done then type endmovie. now in your cstrike folder you can watch what you just made a movie from, and its primed for editing in whichever program you want.
i use sony vegas pro 9.0 which has great effects but it isn't free. umm some helpful hints is, unless you really want the audio in your video, turn it off. even if you do want audio type voice_enable 0 so you cannot see the mic messages at the lower right, or hear people speak. you can play with it on, but before you record the movie of your demo, turn it off.

now im not sure how to get the effect you want, of zooming around in free look after you just killed somebody, but im sure you can google it.

that is a really sweet video tho, be great to make stuff that awesome, but that takes weeks upon weeks, not including how long it takes to get that footage, lol

 

[XXzz-Trauma-zzXX]

OK thanks for the help JunK. I think I have a way of acheiving the effect I am looking for so IM going to test it out and see about it and ill post results here.

 

[ronpaul]

I use sony vegas pro also, don't forget to cl_drawhud 0 so that you don't get all the HUD stuff when you record. Also, that video is absolutely sick

 

[JunK]

I use sony vegas pro also, don't forget to cl_drawhud 0 so that you don't get all the HUD stuff when you record. Also, that video is absolutely sick

oh right that too, but sometimes you may want it so it looks more first person like for some of your stuff, but its how you get rid of radar for your spectator type of shots and stuff.
you can remove the stuff after you take the demo, because to do it you'll need sv_cheats 1 on so you'll need to do it when you're replaying the video, taking the movie shot of it